I too don't think they should have executed him. Once you're dead, your're dead. He would have suffered more by being kept in prison for the rest of his life.
Also, I know most people won't agree with this, but since we can't seem to control the situation in Iraq, I think we should have put him back in charge. I know he was brutal, but the people over there seem to be just acting like animals and thugs, and a brutal dictator is the only thing they seem to respond to. We try to help them, pour billions of tax dollars into their country, we die for them, and all they do is call us invaders, say they hate us, kill us when they can, accuse us of trying to steal their oil, and constantly say they want us to leave. I'm too old to be losing friends over there, but I have friends who have lost children, the same kids that I used to buy presents for and play with. I know the insurgents are to blame, but the leaders who are all on power trips, and the population who revere the leaders do nothing to help us, to stop them, or to point them out. I think we should have just let Hussein go, and let him straighten things out in his own way. Seems he killed less people than what are being killed now, and it's only getting worse. At least when he was in charge, the country functioned and was less of a threat to us. Those people cannot handle a democracy because they are too wrapped up in their religeous beliefs to be fair or objective to one another, or to anyone else, for that matter. I never used to agree with the wackos in this country that do everything in their power to separate church and state, but when you see what a religeous based government is like, I'm becoming convinced that it is a necessary evil. There would have been another benefit to putting Hussein back in charge, as well; He would never have alowed Iran to get nuclear weapons, which we are all just setting back and let happen. I often wondered how the people in the world let Hitler get as far as he did, now I know. It was apathy, endless diplomacy, and political correctness that allowed extremism, fanaticism and facism to spread unchecked, just like it is being allowed to happen now.
Just venting out of frustration for the future of our children, sorry.